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Trump's biographer exposes Trump as 'totally alone figure' with no intimate life: report

President Donald Trump's biographer detailed the truth about the president's sex life, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.

During a conversation on the "Inside Trump’s Head" podcast on Tuesday night, author Michael Wolff described how Trump's Playboy life has long ended and he is now more isolated. And although the 80-year-old president is married, the biographer alleged "he hasn’t gotten any action in years—especially from his wife."

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MAGA senator gives wildly blunt assessment of Trump chaos: 'Aggressively unpredictable'

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) gave a remarkably blunt assessment of the intra-party chaos sparked by President Donald Trump’s “bombshell” he dropped early Wednesday morning - that he would be “cancelling” a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing – and shrugged his shoulders when asked to speculate on Trump’s reasoning.

At around 4 a.m. Washington time, Trump claimed that he was “cancelling” the Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton, whom he tapped to become the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI) after his initial pick faced considerable bipartisan backlash. He appeared to walk that back, however, after announcing that his initial pick – Bill Pulte – would remain as the acting DNI for the foreseeable future, and in the process, derailed the Senate GOP’s agenda.

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Trump nominee hit at hearing: 'You can't want the big job but not to answer big questions'

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) grilled President Donald Trump's budget office nominee, warning that his confirmation would enable "anti-American" policies.

Slotkin zeroed in on Hal Duncan, Trump's pick for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

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'He is not well': Onlookers say Trump's 'profane' Obama jab reveals president's jealousy

President Donald Trump startled onlookers with a profane outburst when he was asked about former President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran.

The 80-year-old Trump has been fixated on proving the agreement to end his war in Iran is stronger than the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – which he withdrew from in May 2018, during his first term – and he blew up Wednesday morning when asked about the comparison at the G7 summit.

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'It's not final!' Trump rages when pressed on Iran deal details

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Wednesday while in France when pressed on the tentative peace deal his administration reached with Iran last weekend, the supposed details of which, while not officially released, have leaked and sparked outrage among hawkish figures.

“No, it's not final, it's a memorandum of understanding!” Trump is heard saying while attending the Group of Seven summit in Évian-les-Bains, France.

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'When you've lost the NY Post': MS NOW panel piles on Trump's Iran disaster

At the end of a segment on Donald Trump’s Iran deal, which is being highly criticized across the board as a disaster, MS NOW host Willie Geist made a point of holding up in the front page of Wednesday’s edition of the New York Post featuring a blaring headline criticizing the president.

Prior to Geist’s display, each member of the “Morning Joe’ panel took a shot at the president now that details of his memorandum of understanding (MOU) have been leaked, with the Financial Times’ Ed Luce offering, “It doesn’t even pass the laugh test.”

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Fox News throws JD Vance under the bus for weak Iran deal: 'Wasn't the right person'

A Fox News host blamed Vice President JD Vance — and not President Donald Trump — for a deal with Iran that he deemed too weak.

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade made the remarks Wednesday during an interview with Alex Gray, who served as chief of staff of the White House National Security Council under Trump.

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CNN plumbs depths of 'green as heck' Reflecting Pool's algae infestation

President Donald Trump poured more than $14 million into a Reflecting Pool renovation that was completed earlier this month, but its refilling has been plagued by an intense algae bloom, and CNN wanted to get to the bottom of it.

The 300,000-square-foot pool has turned an increasingly murky shade of green, and the Department of Interior has sent crews to dump gallons of hydrogen peroxide and deploy special equipment to clean up the problem that's been a scourge to administrations for decades, reported CNN.

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Trump's 'strange behavior' on DC project bewilders Morning Joe hosts: 'Is he scared?'

When discussing the legacy President Donald Trump is likely to leave behind regarding his deeply unpopular war against Iran, the cast of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” pivoted Wednesday to another legacy project of the president’s, one that host Mika Brzezinski said Trump had been exhibiting “strange behavior" over since last week.

The legacy project in question was the rebranding of the Kennedy Performing Arts Center to feature Trump’s name on the building in Washington, D.C. A federal judge ordered Trump’s name be removed from the building, with workers finally taking the president’s name down last weekend.

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'Let's pause for a second': CNN host scolds MAGA pundit over wild swerve off-topic

CNN's Audie Cornish tried to rein in a MAGA pundit after he derailed a political debate with his own personal obsession.

Arch-conservative billionaire Rick Jackson defeated Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial primary Tuesday, and Cornish showed "CNN This Morning" panelists a campaign ad Jackson aired that showed him warning undocumented migrants who commit violent crimes that they would be "deported or departed."

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New Iran peace deal details leak as CNN obtains unreleased 14-point memo

New details from a so-called peace deal between the U.S. and Iran have leaked, but the document shows few specific agreements to end the nearly four-month-long conflict.

CNN has obtained the 14-point memorandum of understanding reached by negotiators for the two nations, and senior White House correspondent Kevin Liptak informed "CNN This Morning" viewers on Wednesday morning of the details he had reviewed moments earlier.

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MAGA lawmaker's bizarre warning about New York parade mystifies critics: "Girl, what?"

A MAGA lawmaker's rambling warning about the Knicks celebrations confused critics online.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) said on Fox Business, "I'm worried" after seeing footage of the New York Knicks celebrations on Saturday. Fox Business played a video on repeat of a person swinging a scooter into a bus after the Knicks won their first NBA championship in more than fifty years.

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'Sorry, what?' GOP pundit's head-spinning defense of Trump diplomacy baffles CNN anchor

A conservative pundit's attempt to defend Trump's diplomacy backfired as a CNN roundtable jumped on him.

Tony Kinnett, a conservative podcast host, tried to explain how Trump has been negotiating with Iran and the new dubious deal whose details are hidden from the public.

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